The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-04-29
AnNii,cr ..Mnrid's Orsamizer. -

Another WORLDS Organizer"
10 tie LocM Unions.
DEAR SIsrERs:-The worlds VI. G. T.
L. has to-day four organizers ia the field;
Mrs. Leayitt in India, Miss Gray in Switzcs-
land, Mrs Anderson Me1erhelm III Swc-
den, and Mrs. Margaret Parker. soon to 90
to the Sandwich Islands. Australia. and we
hope to Japan. Success has. from the first
GSS3), attend this vast enterprise, ana il
men and women Of wealth would aid L.,
the world would in ten years be ~ familiar
with the name, and a much blessed by the
work of this society as the United Stairs
Canada and England and with the w g
T. L.
Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith, secretary
of the America Branch Of the Worlds y.
c. r. t., has worked indefatigably 10 adj
vance IT'S interests. Mrs. Clara l.. Roach
and Mrs. Rev. Dr. Newman Of Boston.
have been made superintendent. reSpec-
lively, of the Departments Of the Press and
Legal Work, and we are now 81 fortunate
as to have the help Of Mrs Margaret
Parker. who has been named by the
American section a lis organizer: for the
plan is that each organized section shall
turn missionary and send out as many Is il
can to till the foreign field. 1t is bit Of
pleasant reciprocity which enables rs thus
to preempt the services OF our genial
British cousin. Who has said ON her repeat
ed visits to our country. that she feels
almost more ut home with u> than ON the
other side. Her spirit is 50 broad, and her
insight So deep that she is, in the best
sense of the word, "a progressive woman :
who bases upon the evolution Of Christ
ianty her hopes for the human race
Mrs. Parker was the pioneer of the White
| Ribbon movement in Great Britain. having
called the convention from which resulted
the British Womens Temperance Asso-
citation, having been for years its president,
and being now 4 leading member of its
executive committee. Mrs Parker was
| also chosen president of the international
| ". {. r. t., organized al the Philadel
! phia Convention in the Centennial year,
ana which would have lived and wrought
! had the merited cooperation been youch-
/ safed. She was at one and the same time
| president of the local W. c. F. L. Of her
own town Dundee Of the British
| Women's Temperance Association. and of
| this one. named International, which
/ speaks enough for her standing as 4
worker beloved and capable. Mrs. Parker
! is one Of John i. Coughs converts ototal
abstinence, aud he had none effective.
| She has written a book about her trips to
America, and handles her pen gracefully
and well. On the platform she is woman
ly, winning and persuasive, with 4 rich
English voice and choice use OF language.
Her children are grown and settled in life;
except one lovely daughter, who keeps
house for her father in Mrs Parker'S
absence.
This noble man, Edward Parker. is heart
and soul with his wife in her work Of
philanthropy, and bids her God-speed in
this latest and longest OF her expeditions.
She came to America for her health this
time, and is spending :he winter in Cali
fomia. 1t is arranged for her to make a
trip through the Southern division OF that
state, after which am sure our sisters will
welcome her'to Northern California before
she sails on her more distant Journey.
Will not the whole White Ribbon host
pray for the success of this dear leader
and help us, 50 far as they eau, with the
expenses? No further requirement is made
and if each town visited will take mp the
usual collection for the Worlds W. G.. r.
t. at the close Of Mrs. Parker's address,
she will, like Mrs Leayitt, be doing mach
to pay her own way Please let this be
carefully observed: Advertise the meeting
as for the Worlds w. c. f. t.; print this
notice Of Mrs. Parker in your papers dear
sisters of the local unions in California,
Sandwich Islands, Australia and so on,
being assured that il properly notified and
informed, tie people, whom we have 50 long
trusted. will stand by IT'S in this new enter
prise, signing the Worlds Petition. wear
ing the white ribbon, reading its literature
observing its noon hour of prayer. and pay
| ing the current expenses of those whom NC
send ont. FRANCES f. WILLARD
Who ever heard of man scattering
small pox on the ground that it was his
personal right The liquor devil has
killed a thousand men where small pox has